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Thoracic chordoma.
Dra. Rita Delgado – Rua Borges Lagoa 1080 / 307 04038-002 São Paulo SP Brasil. E-mail: [email protected] Chordomas are slow-growing tumors with aggressive local behavior that probably originate from embryonic remnants of the notochord. This is a midline structure along the neural tube that presents involution and fragmentation as ossification of the axial skeleton occurs, in such way that i...
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Remnants of the notochord sometimes become activated into tumour formation; Ribbert (1895) established the origin of such tumours, and called them chordomata. They can arise at any point along the length of the original notochord, and Coenen (1925) first classified them according to their site of origin into cranial, vertebral, and caudal or sacro-coccygeal. Mabrey (1935) in a comprehensive rev...
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A 51-year-old woman presented with aspecific clinical symptoms of the thoracic spine. Radiological survey showed a tumour mass at T3-T4. Initial microscopic evaluation was suggestive of renal cell carcinoma metastasis. Lack of a primary tumour and revision of the specimens changed the diagnosis into chordoma.
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An 8-year-old boy presented with a 1-year history of low backache, followed by paraparesis and urinary incontinence. MRI of the thoracic spine revealed an intramedullary, intensely contrast-enhancing lesion extending from T11 to L1 vertebral level, consistent with astrocytoma, ependymoma or haemangioblastoma. A diagnosis of intramedullary chordoma was made on tissue biopsy and immunohistochemic...
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PURPOSES To review in the literature, all the epidemiological, clinical, radiological, histological and therapeutic data regarding chordomas as well as various notochordal entities: ecchordosis physaliphora, intradural and intraparenchymatous chordomas, benign notochordal cell tumors, parachordomas and extra-axial chordomas. To identify different types of chordomas, including familial forms, as...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Thorax
سال: 1951
ISSN: 0040-6376
DOI: 10.1136/thx.6.4.403